The director of the Algerian Agency under the National Social Insurance Fund (CNAS) has revealed that the number of diseases reported to the CNAS is 85 occupational diseases, including deafness, eczema and asthma. The majority of workers affected by these diseases are those who work in automobile manufacturing plants, in construction sites and in factories producing cleaning products.
In this context, the online newspaper 'Albilad' explained that occupational diseases have cost the CNAS more than eight billion centimes since the beginning of the current year. The director of the Agency added that social security covers 85 diseases classified on the tables of occupational diseases and indicated that the Agency registered, between December 2014 until November 2019 , 784 insured persons having received care with a total cost of 7 billion centimeters and 800 million centimeters during the year 2014.
The most common occupational diseases among insured persons are deafness and allergies (such as eczema, respiratory diseases and, in particular, asthma). Deafness mainly affects construction workers, car assembly plants and the cement industry. Cleaners, bakeries, building workers and health care workers often have Asthma due to contact with chemicals.
Asthma mainly affects primary school teachers (because of contact with chalk), textile workers and stone carving workers.
Occupational diseases appear gradually and that their diagnosis can take from six months to twenty years because of the absence of the tradition of occupational physicians and the lack of prevention.
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